118 Bible verses about The Presence of God

I want to share something with you about the most profound experience a person can have, something that will forever change your life, creating a clear before and after in your soul: experiencing the presence of God. Apart from Him, nothing truly fulfilling can be achieved. Spending even a single day in His presence is better than a thousand anywhere else.

There's no escaping His Holy Spirit. Wherever you are, His love will find you, time and time again. Don't even try to live without God's presence. He's the most important thing you need. He'll give you the strength to keep going and face whatever challenges come your way.

The success you're looking for comes from spending time in His presence. When you close the door and have that intimate time with the Father, you'll be transformed to be more like Christ. That's where you'll find the strength to take firm steps according to His will. As Psalm 16:11¹ says, "You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”

I pray that the Holy Spirit manifests in your life, that you experience Him as your everything – the strength that lifts you, the grace that sustains you – so you can delight in His love and give thanks for the joy of having Him in your life.

Having God is living a complete life. Every emptiness is filled. There's no better way to live than under the presence of the Holy Spirit. Being close to God is my good; I have made the Lord my refuge to declare all your works.

Where I can go from your Spirit, or where can I flee from your presence?If I ascend to heaven, there you are, and if I make my bed in Sheol, look! There you are.If I lift up the wings of the dawn, and I alight on the far side of the sea,even there your hand would lead me, and your right hand would hold me fast.

God is our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles.

teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age.”

Your lifestyle must be free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For he himself has said, “I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you.”

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; with songs let us shout joyfully to him.

so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

You must not fear, for I am with you; you must not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, indeed I will help you, indeed I will take hold of you with the right hand of my salvation.

One who lives in the secret place of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai.I will say to Yahweh, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.”

Oh my soul you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. I have no good apart from you.”

One thing I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple.

Yahweh is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

You will make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forever.

How lovely are your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts!My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, in order that he may be with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know him. You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

And he said to him, “If your presence is not going, do not bring us up from here.

But as for me, the approach to God is for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge, in order to tell all your works.

Seek Yahweh and his strength; seek his face continually!

Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

And he said, “My presence will go, and I will give you rest.”

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorch you.

At the presence of the Lord writhe, O earth, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

And the angel answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you this good news.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.”

O God, you are my God; I will seek you diligently. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you as in a dry and weary land without water.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

who will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.

I was beside him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him always,

Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off? Why do you hide during times of distress?

O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought from afar.

Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart. The earth heaves before him— the world and all her inhabitants.

A father to orphans and a judge for widows is God in his holy habitation.God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out,

Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name; the upright will dwell in your presence.

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

In every place, the eyes of Yahweh keep watch over the evil and the good.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found; call him while he is near.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

But let all who take shelter in you rejoice. Let them ever sing for joy, because you spread protection over them; And let those who love your name exult in you.For you bless the righteous. O Yahweh, like a shield you surround him with good favor.

And he said to him, “If your presence is not going, do not bring us up from here.And by what will it be known then that I have found favor in your eyes, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us? And so we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the ground.”

Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh my God, you are very great. You clothe yourself with splendor and majesty,you who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain,

Great peace is for those who love your law, and they do not have a cause for stumbling.

Yahweh is near to those who are heartbroken and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Let your gentleness be made known to all people. The Lord is near.

casting all your cares on him, because he cares for you.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.

For there is a moment in his anger; there is a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning comes rejoicing.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arm, and he will carry them in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse.

Yahweh is for me; I do not fear. What can mere humans do to me?

As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

I sought Yahweh and he answered me, and from all my terrors he delivered me.

Indeed you created my inward parts; you wove me in my mother’s womb.I praise you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it well.

For you have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

Only for God my soul waits in silence. From him is my salvation.Only he is my rock and my salvation, my high stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me.”

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me alive. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and you save me with your right hand.

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and will take up residence with him.

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.

O Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will set forth my case to you and I will watch.

Therefore let us approach with confidence to the throne of grace, in order that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short to save, and his ear is not too dull to hear.

For he will command his angels concerning you, to watch over you in all your ways.

The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.Every day they pour forth speech, and every night they tell knowledge.There is no speech and there are no words; their sound is inaudible.Yet in all the world their line goes out, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has pitched a tent for the sun,

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives and liberation to those who are bound,to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and our God’s day of vengeance, to comfort all those in mourning,to give for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory.

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies; they seek him with a whole heart.

Trust Yahweh with all your heart; do not lean toward your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten your paths.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Yahweh is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry for help, and saves them.

I have chosen the faithful way; I have set your ordinances before me.

For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.

Come to me, all of you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy to carry and my burden is light.”

Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they can ever praise you. Selah

I have set Yahweh before me always. Because he is at my right hand I will not be shaken.

For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Let my soul live that it may praise you, and let your ordinances help me.

convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Christ Jesus,

Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like the weaned child is my soul with me.

Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh; let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; with songs let us shout joyfully to him.

what we have seen and heard, we announce to you also, in order that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go. I will advise you with my eye upon you.

O Yahweh, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight before me your way.

Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

even there your hand would lead me, and your right hand would hold me fast.

The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and he rescues them.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

To you, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the splendor and the glory and the strength, for everything in the heavens and in the earth. Yours, O Yahweh, is the kingdom and exaltation over all as head!And wealth and glory are from you, and you rule over all. And in your hand is power and might. And in your hand is power to make great and to give strength to all.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise. Give thanks to him; bless his name.

But I am continually with you; you have hold of my right hand.You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me into honor.

Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer. You shall cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am!’ If you remove from among you the yoke, the finger-pointing and evil speech,

what is a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings, and with glory and with majesty you crowned him.

Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope is from him.

A tower of strength is the name of Yahweh; into him the righteous will run and be safe.

Because Yahweh God is a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly.

For you have been my refuge, a strong tower from the enemy.

You must not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and I will gather you from the west.

Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing.He who diligently goes out with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come in with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves.

I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek your servant, because I do not forget your commands.

Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me.

He will call upon me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Consequently, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and from my sin cleanse me.

He is the one who heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was created secretly, and intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

See my misery and rescue me, for I do not forget your law.

But I will certainly hide my face on that day, because of all of the evil that they did because they turned to other gods.

Did I not command you? Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Yahweh of hosts is with us; our high stronghold is the God of Jacob. Selah

Yahweh your God is in your midst; a mighty warrior who saves. He shall rejoice over you with joy; he renews you in his love; he will exult over you with singing.

“Behold, the virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son, and they will call his name Emmanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

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